Obama On Campaign Trail Talking About Himself Not Candidates

Barack Obama was supposed to be campaigning for Congressional candidates in California on Saturday, but that wouldn’t stop him from talking about himself.

A lot.

All told, Obama referred to himself at least 63 times during his 23-minute speech. That’s an average of once every 23 seconds.

Responding to chants of “Yes We Can,” Obama referred to himself 8 times in the first minute.

“It is good to be back in California. It is good to be back. I love you, too!” Obama said.

“I do. I, um, I, I, I just, I, I just had time to spend with some amazing Democratic candidates for Congress,” he said.

But before he could focus on them, he had to focus on himself.

After saying he was going to talk about the candidates, Obama said, “But before I do so, I was telling them I went to Disneyland twice when I was younger.”

After telling the crowd he was kicked out of the park for smoking, he said, “At the time I was a teenager, I was rebellious.”

“I love you, Obama!” a fan interrupted moments later.

“I love you, too,” he responded.

“I gave a long speech yesterday,” he said, referring to the 64-minute speech at the University of Illinois in which he referred to himself at least 102 times, “and so today is a different role.”

But it wasn’t all that different from Friday’s appearance, except in Illinois, it was only once every 38 seconds. “Only.”

Obama’s favorite word seemed to be “I,” which he repeated at least 87 times, followed by more than a dozen references to “my” or “me,” The American Mirror reported on Friday.

“By the time I left office, household income was near its all-time high, and the uninsured rate had hit an all-time low, and wages were rising, and poverty rates were falling. I mention all this just so when you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let’s just remember when this recovery started,” Obama told the students.

“When you hear about this economic miracle that’s been going on – when the job numbers come out … and suddenly Republicans are saying, ‘It’s a miracle!’ I have to kind of remind them: actually, those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015 and 2016,” he said.

All told, Obama referred to himself 63 times during the Anaheim appearance, saying “I” 61 times, and “me” and “my” once each.

He devoted just 5 minutes — or about 20 percent — of his speech to talking about the candidates he was promoting.